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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JULY, 1909
New Solicitors.
ADMISSIONS DURING JUNE, 1909.
Name.
Served apprenticeship to
Barklie, John,
.
.
Ernest T. S. "Wilson,
Lisburn.
Bynie, William
].,
.
.
Gerald Byrne, Dublin.
Knox, Alfred Sefton Victor, Joseph Lockhart, Lisburn.
Markey, Patrick C.,
.
AVilliamD.Sullivan,Navan.
I*ersse, John Geoffrey,
.
Sir Benjamin Whitney,
Dublin.
Obituary.
MR. WILLIAM ARTHUR PIKE, Solicitor, died
on the i6th June, 1909, at Dublin.
Mr. Pike, who served his apprenticeship
with his father, the late Mr. William P. Pike,
of 21, Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin, was
admitted in Trinity Term, 1861, and was for
many years on the staff of Messrs. William
Findlater and Co., Dublin.
Professorship of Common Law.
THE Council upon the i6th June elected Mr.
Frederick
G.
Sharpe, Solicitor, to the office of
Professor of Common Law to the Society, in
succession
to Mr. W. Herbert Boyd,
K.L.,
whose term of office will expire at the end of
the present Sittings.
Mr. Sharpe, who is a Graduate and Doctor
of Laws of Dublin University, and a First
Prizeman in Law and Political Economy, was
admitted a Solicitor in 1899, and
in 1902
obtained the degree of Doctor of Civil Law
of Durham University,
ad eundem.
Statutory Rules under the County Officers
and Courts Act (Ireland), 1877, and the
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906.
WHEREAS by an Act, 40 and 41 Vict., c. 56,
intituled "The County Officers and Courts
(Ireland) Act, 1877," sec. 79, it is enacted that
the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of
the County Court Judges and Chairmen of
Quarter Sessions in Ireland, or any five of
them, to be selected or nominated as in the
said Act is provided, may make rules and
orders for regulating the proceedings in and
practice of the Civil Bills Courts in Ireland,
and for prescribing the forms of proceedings,
and for the several other purposes in the said
Act mentioned, and otherwise for carrying the
said Act into execution, and may from time to
time amend such rules, orders, and forms, and
that every rule, order, and form certified under
the hands of the Lord Chancellor, and any five
of such Judges and Chairmen, shall take effect
from and after such day as shall be therein
named;
And whereas by the Labourers (Ireland) Act,
1906, sec. 6 (5) and sec. 11 (6) (12), rules of
Court for the purpose of carrying the said Act
into effect in the County Courts are required to
be made as in the said sections mentioned.
And whereas Rules of Court under the said
Labourers
(Ireland) Act, 1906, have been
made, and are now in force as Provisional
Rules under the provisions of section 2 of the
Rules Publication Act, 1893, and it is expe
dient that the said rules, either as originally
drawn or as they may be amended by the rule-
making authority, should be made to come into
operation as Statutory Rules under section
i
of the said Rules Publication Act.
And whereas notice was given in the
Dublin
Gazette
of the 27th dav of November, 1906, of
the proposal
to make
the said Rules as
Statutory Rules, and all conditions prelimi
nary
to
the making of the said Rules as
Statutory Rules have been fulfilled ;
And whereas at a meeting of the said Judges,
duly convened for the purpose, the following
five of them, that is to say :—His Honor Judge
Sir Francis Brady, Bart., K.c. ;
His Honor
judge Orr, K.C. ; His Honor Judge Shaw, K.c.;
His Honor judge Craig, K.C. ; and His Honor
Judge Brereton Barry, K.C., were selected to
frame rules, orders, and forms as aforesaid.
Now, I, The Right Honourable Sir Samuel
Walker, Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
with the concurrence of the said Judges, as
testified by their signatures hereto, and after
consultation with the President of the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland, in pursuance
of the powers given by the said recited Acts,
and of all other powers thereunto Us enabling,
do hereby make and certify the rules and
forms, hereinafter set forth, as Statutory Rules
and Forms to be used and be in force in pro
ceedings in the County Courts under section 6
(5) and section 11 (6) (12) of the Labourers
(Ireland) Act, 1906, and do make the said
rules and forms to come into operation forth
with as Statutory Rules.
Dated this ist day of June, 1909.
S. WALKER,
C.
FRAS. BKAUY.
JAMES ORR.
JAMES J. SHAW.
j. WALKER CRAIG.
R. BRERETON BARRY.
W. J. SHANNON,
Pres. Incorp. Law Society.